GCP Cloud Engineer (Remote Job)

Excelraise, LLC is a leading provider of full-service IT solutions and a talent management company headquartered in Denver, CO. At Excelraise, we specialize in IT staffing solutions tailored for government and federal clients across the USA.

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Excelraise, LLC is seeking a GCP Cloud Engineer (Remote Job) for our client in Denver, CO.

***This is 100% Remote Position***Candidate Must Be Local to Colorado***

The GCP Cloud Engineer accelerates project delivery by implementing enterprise-grade cloud designs and automation standards established by the Cloud Architecture and Operations teams. Operating within a DevOps methodology, you will serve as the primary infrastructure lead on cloud migration and modernization projects—provisioning application hosting environments, building robust monitoring, and ensuring high availability.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure as Code: Deploy and manage GCP infrastructure natively as code (IaC) utilizing Terraform integrated into automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Standardization: Define, document, and govern Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the secure consumption of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS across GCP.
• Core Networking: Configure and deploy highly available VPC environments, Shared VPCs, and cloud compute instances across all hosted enterprise workloads.
• Identity & Access: Manage cloud-platform users, organizations, groups, and access controls in strict alignment with IAM team requirements.
• Innovation & Advocacy: Analyze emerging GCP features for platform adoption and evangelize cloud capabilities to internal teams to drive migration.

Required Skills:

• At least five (5) years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience with GCP foundation services related to computing, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, and automation technologies.
• At least five (5) years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience in Terraform or similar.
• Deep domain expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, and Infrastructure as code technology), breadth of technical experience, and technical aptitude to learn and adjust to new technologies and cloud trends required.
• Proven technical breadth and the aptitude to adapt to rapidly changing cloud trends
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Strong scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, YAML, and PowerShell.

Preferred Skills:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
• Hands-on experience deploying infrastructure via Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar enterprise CI/CD platforms